US4834042A - Ceramic precombustion chamber for internal combustion engine - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
- F02B19/00—Engines characterised by precombustion chambers
- F02B19/16—Chamber shapes or constructions not specific to sub-groups F02B19/02 - F02B19/10
- F02B19/165—The shape or construction of the pre-combustion chambers is specially adapted to be formed, at least in part, of ceramic material
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
- F02B3/00—Engines characterised by air compression and subsequent fuel addition
- F02B3/06—Engines characterised by air compression and subsequent fuel addition with compression ignition
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
- Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
- Y02T10/10—Internal combustion engine [ICE] based vehicles
- Y02T10/12—Improving ICE efficiencies
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- This invention relates to an improvement of a ceramic precombustion chamber for an internal combustion engine such as a diesel engine.
- precombustion chambers by a ceramic body as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 62-10,418.
- a ceramic precombustion chamber is usually made of upper and lower ceramic bodies fitted in a metal ring by thermal shrinkage fit for the convenience in manufacture.
- surface pressures on the ceramic bodies caused by the thermal shrinkage fit are uneven.
- a shrinking allowance at a lower portion of the ceramic body with said metal ring is smaller than that at an upper portion of the ceramic body with said metal ring.
- FIG. 1 is a sectional view illustrating one example of a precombustion chamber before the present invention is applied thereto;
- FIG. 2 is a sectional view illustrating a first embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 3 is a sectional view illustrating a second embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 4 is a sectional view illustrating a unitary ceramic precombustion chamber before the present invention is applied;
- FIG. 5 is a sectional view illustrating a third embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 6 is a sectional view illustrating a fourth embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 7 is a graph showing distributions of shrinking allowances and surface pressures.
- a cylinder head 1 for an internal combustion engine includes a metal ring 2 press-fitted in the cylinder head 1 and upper and lower ceramic bodies 3 and 4 fitted in the metal ring 2 by thermal shrinkage fit.
- the upper and lower ceramic bodies 3 and 4 are hollow bodies having circular cross-sections to form a precombustion chamber.
- the upper ceramic body 3 is formed with a through-aperture 6 communicating with a glow plug receiving portion 5 of the cylinder head 1 and a through-aperture 8 communicating with an injection nozzle receiving portion 7 of the cylinder head 1.
- the lower ceramic body 4 is formed with a combustion gas injection aperture 10 for jetting combustion gas into a cylinder chamber 9.
- keys 11 and 12 are inserted between the metal ring 2 and the ceramic bodies 3 and 4 for inserted keys 11 and 12 for preventing the ceramic bodies 3 and 4 from rotating relative to the cylinder head 1.
- an outer contour of a lower ceramic body 4 is progressively reduced in dimension or tapered downwardly so that outer diameters of the lower ceramic body 4 are gradually smaller as they are near its lower end in comparison with an outer diameter of the upper ceramic body 3.
- the shrinking allowances on the ceramic bodies are set so as to create predetermined surface pressures which are sufficient to prevent the ceramic bodies from being dislodged from a cylinder head.
- FIG. 7 illustrates the change in surface pressure created by the shrinkage fit in this manner.
- the shrinking allowance on the lower ceramic body is decreased according to the invention, the surface pressure at the bottom of the lower ceramic body is decreased about 50% as shown in a solid line B in FIG. 7.
- the same effect is obtained when the lower ceramic body 4 is tapered starting from a somewhat lower portion than an uppermost end of the lower ceramic body 4 as shown in broken liens C in FIG. 7, although the lines C deviate from the lines B.
- a lower ceramic body 4 is straight cylindrical but not tapered and its outer diameter is slightly smaller than that of an upper ceramic body 3.
- a shrinking allowance of the lower ceramic body 4 is smaller than that of the upper ceramic body 3.
- an inner diameter of a portion 14 of a metal ring 2 to be in contact with a lower ceramic body 4 is larger than that of a portion 13 to be in contact with an upper ceramic body 3.
- a shrinking allowance on the lower ceramic body 4 is smaller than that on the upper ceramic body 3.
- the metal ring 2 is formed in its inner surface with a shoulder resulting from the difference in inner diameter between upper and lower portions of the metal ring 2.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a fourth embodiment of the invention, wherein an inside of a metal ring 2 comprises an upper portion having an equal inner diameter and a lower portion to be in contact with a lower ceramic body 4 and having inner diameters gradually increasing as approaching its lower end.
- the ceramic precombustion chambers shown in FIGS. 1-3 have been explained divided into the upper and lower ceramic bodies. However, the same effect can be obtained in a unitary precombustion chamber as shown in FIG. 4. In any cases, the surface pressures produced at the bottoms of the lower ceramic bodies can be decreased as shown in FIG. 7, by the feature of the shrinking allowance on the lower ceramic body smaller than that on the upper ceramic body.
- the shrinking allowance at the lower portion of the ceramic bodies is smaller than that at the upper portion of the ceramic bodies, so that surface pressures at the curved portion between the bottom and side walls of the lower ceramic body are decreased, thereby preventing cracks which would otherwise occur in the curved portion of the lower ceramic body. Therefore, the invention is useful for improving durability and thermal efficiency of a diesel engine and very valuable in practical use.
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US4953528A (en) * | 1988-10-07 | 1990-09-04 | Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogya Kabushiki Kaisha | Direct injection-type diesel engines |
US5014664A (en) * | 1989-07-27 | 1991-05-14 | Isuzu Motors Limited | Heat-insulating structure of swirl chamber |
US5065714A (en) * | 1989-07-27 | 1991-11-19 | Isuzu Motors Limited | Heat-insulating structure of swirl chamber and its production method |
US5010861A (en) * | 1989-08-10 | 1991-04-30 | Isuzu Motors Limited | Heat-insulating structure of swirl chamber and production method thereof |
US5109817A (en) * | 1990-11-13 | 1992-05-05 | Altronic, Inc. | Catalytic-compression timed ignition |
US5297518A (en) * | 1992-08-10 | 1994-03-29 | Cherry Mark A | Mass controlled compression timed ignition method and igniter |
US5421299A (en) * | 1992-08-10 | 1995-06-06 | Cherry; Mark A. | Compression timed pre-chamber flame distributing igniter for internal combustion engines |
US6322050B2 (en) | 2000-04-19 | 2001-11-27 | Flowserve Corporation | Method of manufacture of element having ceramic insert and high-strength element-to-shaft connection for use in a valve |
US6367774B1 (en) | 2000-04-19 | 2002-04-09 | Flowserve Corporation | Element having ceramic insert and high-strength element-to-shaft connection for use in a valve |
US9642858B2 (en) | 2012-10-30 | 2017-05-09 | University of Pittsburgh—of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | Use of resazurin, or analogs thereof, for antibacterial therapy |
CN108026827A (zh) * | 2015-06-30 | 2018-05-11 | 康明斯公司 | 喷嘴燃烧护罩 |
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